Occupational Therapy in Housing: Building on Firm by Sylvia Clutton, Jani Grisbooke, Sue Pengelly

By Sylvia Clutton, Jani Grisbooke, Sue Pengelly

This e-book offers practitioners with the principles onto which they could construct their very own realizing and perform inside of housing.It relies on basic rules: the significance of houses changing into allowing environments, and selling user-centred companies. The authors argues that occupational therapists operating within the precise context of housing require extra history wisdom abilities to these used inside of healthcare settings.Explores a huge diversity of conception bases and constructing perform in the zone of occupational treatment in housingPresents an enormous array of data, study and experienceWritten through occupational therapists operating as practitioners, educators and executives, along teachers within the social coverage and incapacity concerns

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Management approaches to assessment for adaptations At the highest strategic level, housing adaptations for adults and children should be seen as a means of supporting some of the government’s core objectives: improving health, fostering education and employability, keeping people out of institutional care. In Northern Ireland a fundamental review of the adaptation system (NIHE, 2003b) involved health, social services and the housing sectors. The resulting report is an example of what is possible when joint approaches are taken seriously at all levels.

There is no one definitive list of all the positive meanings a person’s home may represent. For children it is a place of nurture, play and growth; for adults it may be a financial investment. 1. c. ’ A place where the dweller is in control and has autonomy Person cannot move from room to room nor choose when to get up, bath or eat because of dependency on local authority carers ‘The ability to gain access to the whole house is wonderful. ’ ‘It was the independence. ’ property A place to foster and reflect a sense of self Person is finding it very hard to be ‘labelled’ as disabled and have this displayed to the world by ‘different’ sort of housing ‘Kind guidance from occupational therapist.

A) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to and from the dwelling or the building in which the dwelling or, as the case may be, flat is situated; (b) making the dwelling or building safe for the disabled occupant and other persons residing with him; (c) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to a room used or usable as the principal family room; (d) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to, or providing for the disabled occupant, a room used or usable for sleeping; (e) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to, or providing for the disabled occupant, a room in which there is a lavatory, or facilitating the use by the disabled occupant of such a facility; (f) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to, or providing for the disabled occupant, a room in which there is a bath or shower (or both), or facilitating the use by the disabled person of such a facility; (g) facilitating access by the disabled occupant to, or providing for the disabled occupant, a room in which there is a washhand basin, or facilitating the use by the disabled person of such a facility; (h) facilitating the preparation and cooking of food by the disabled occupant; (i) improving any heating system in the dwelling to meet the needs of the disabled occupant or, if there is no existing heating system in the dwelling or any such system is unsuitable for use by the disabled occupant, providing a heating system suitable to meet his needs; (j) facilitating the use by the disabled occupant of a source of power, light or heat by altering the position of one or more means of access to or control of that source or by providing additional means of control; (k) facilitating access and movement by the disabled occupant around the dwelling in order to enable him to care for a person who is normally resident in the dwelling and is in need of such care; (l) such other purposes as may be specified by order of the Secretary of State.

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